Solarized - Ghost Across Hell From Me - CASSETTES

Various Artists - The Very Best Of Macedonia [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/18/2003

What is life but an endless series of Inchuh ohInchs? From our earliest childhood accidents to our most overwhelming adult anxieties, it's a little phrase that looms large throughout our existence. Just ask Montreal indie-pop maestro Patrick Watson who was recently faced with the biggest Inchuh ohInch a professional singer could endure.One morning in the winter of 2023, Patrick woke up to discover that his voice-the angelic instrument that propelled 2006's carnivalesque art-rock opus Close to Paradise to the Polaris Music Prize winner's podium -had gone completely kaputt. InchObviously, I like singing for people, but I was really enjoying my Modular [synth] and diving into instrumental musicInch-a natural inclination for Patrick, who's composed over 15 film scores to date. InchBut then I was like, 'Oh, it'd be cool to write songs for all these different singers that I really want to hear sing-I'll find my way out of this situation that way.' Because my voice wasn't supposed to come back. And when it did, I just thought having all these other singers was still a cooler idea for a record than me singing.Inch

This live recording of Strauss's Metamorphosen and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony marks the birth on record of the 'Sinfonia Grange au Lac', an orchestra created in July 2018 on the occasion of the Rencontres Musicales d'Évian, the prestigious festival created by Mstislav Rostropovich in 1985 and revived since 2014. A musical ambassador intended to promote the excellence of it's parent festival worldwide, the Sinfonia Grange au Lac consists of musicians from leading European orchestras (in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, London, Lucerne, Munich, Paris, Salzburg, Valencia and Vienna) as well as existing groups such as the Trio Karénine and the Quatuor Ébène. And it was a stroke of genius to manage to secure the services of Esa-Pekka Salonen. The brilliant Finn became a passionate supporter of the project, checking the list of members one by one. He told Diapason magazine 'Our work together made me understand what guided Claudio Abbado when he created the Lucerne Festival Orchestra the pleasure of working with handpicked musicians and making music with great freshness.'